ELi5: When giant ships like the Titanic sink is there a whirlpool effect that can drag people under when the ship fills with water? Can someone please explain why or why not this would happen?
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To add to other answers a very similar effect can happen in air and it has pulled airplanes out of the sky. We don’t have man made things big enough to do this to airplanes, but water can do it. It’s called a microburst. Basically something causes a small stormcloud or part of a larger one to quickly and violently rain most of it’s water. This causes a massive downdraft as the water displaces and pulls air down with it. The air that goes down goes out and up and the air above and to the side is pulled in and down.
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